A $1,000 reward is available for information that leads to an arrest in the February death of a 92-year-old North Braddock woman.

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Pittsburgh Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for information in the Amelia Roman case. The medical examiner's office ruled Roman's death a homicide, saying she died from a heart attack due to heart disease and physical restraint.

Roman was found dead in her home by a neighbor Feb. 15 with duct tape on her mouth, hands and feet.

Allegheny County police said officers were first called to the house on Jones Avenue around 4 p.m. for a medic call.

Roman's son didn’t hear from her that day, so he asked a neighbor and uncle to check on her. When they went to her home, they found her body on a bed covered in blankets.

County homicide detectives say the house was ransacked.

"We don’t know what was taken at this time, but by her living conditions, she didn’t have much in there. It wasn’t worth what happened here today," Assistant Police Superintendent James Morton said at the time.

Detectives said the back window was broken, and the break-in likely happened overnight.

Police said Roman was small but may have put up a fight, as there was evidence of a small struggle in the home.

Neighbors said Roman lived alone and kept to herself. They would see caretakers and Meals on Wheels at the house often.

“I mean, she never bothered no one, never bothered no one. I’m like, oh, my God, Jesus, help us,” said one neighbor, who, out of fear, didn’t want to be identified. “She was a very nice lady. If she saw the kids, she would stare at the kids for a little while and then go back in.”

Tim McConnell lives in the neighborhood and said he would see her walking.

“She didn’t bother nobody. She didn’t speak. She would nod. You’d say hi to her, and she would nod, just keep on her way. My heart goes out to her family. This is ruthless.”

"She was just, again, part of that generation that was right with America," said Braddock Mayor John Fetterman.

Although Roman lived in the neighboring community of North Braddock, Fetterman had been contacted by her son in the past to check on her.

"He's reached out to my wife and I on social media. Since it wasn't our community, we would always do what we could and try to put her in touch with the appropriate officials in North Braddock," said Fetterman. "I just don't understand how somebody could do this to such a sweet lady and it goes without saying that she deserved much better than what happened, and it's profoundly sad to think the home that she lived her entire life, the way it ended."